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month

English

(wikipedia month)

Alternative forms

* (l) (dialectal)

Noun

  • (en noun) The plural is occasionally seen as month (unchanged)
  • A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon. In the Gregorian calendar there are twelve months: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title=[http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21582498-america-has-changed-way-it-measures-gdp-boundary-problems Boundary problems] , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month .}}
  • A period of 30 days, 31 days, or some alternation thereof.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
    • , passage=Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 29, author=Jon Smith, work=BBC Sport
    • , title=[http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/15014632.stm Tottenham 3-1 Shamrock Rovers] , passage=With the north London derby to come at the weekend, Spurs boss Harry Redknapp opted to rest many of his key players, although he brought back Aaron Lennon after a month out through injury.}}
  • (obsolete, in the plural) A woman's period; menstrual discharge.
  • *, vol.I, New York, 2001, p.234:
    • Sckenkius hath two other instances of two melancholy and mad women, so caused from the suppression of their months .

    Related terms

    * monthly * month of Sundays * time of the month

    See also

    * quarter * week * year *

    Statistics

    * 1000 English basic words

    jingzhe

    English

    (wikipedia Jingzhe)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • The “Waking of Insects”; the Chinese third solar term J?ngzhé listed on page 308] of the ABC Chinese–English Dictionary: Alphabetically Based Computerized , by John DeFrancis (1999; The [http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/cart/shopcore/?db_name=uhpress University of Hawai?i Press; ISBN 0824821548 (10), ISBN 978-0824821548 (13)) — a “month” lasting from the fifth to the twentieth days of March.
  • * 1998 : Robert B. Marks, Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China , p111] ([http://www.cambridge.org/ Cambridge University Press; ISBN 0521591775 (10), ISBN 978-0521591775 (13))
    • In Cenxi county, south of Wuzhou on a tributary flowing into the West River, the local gazetteer even assigned a specific date to the introduction of double cropping of rice: “Planting an early crop of rice first began during the Tianqi reign (1621–27), [and after that] each year two crops were harvested. The early crop is planted at Jingzhe [“Waking of the Insects”, March 5] and harvested in Xiaoshu or Dashu [“Lesser” or “Greater Heat”, July 7–23]. The late crop is planted at Mengzhong [“Grain in the Ear”, June 6] and harvested in the first month of the winter [mid-November].”73
  • * 2004 : Hanchao Lu, Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century , p298] (The [http://www.ucpress.edu/ University of California Press; ISBN 0520243781 (10), ISBN 978-0520243781 (13))
    • In Shanghai, popular beliefs such as the idea that a thunderstorm prior to Jingzhe (the Waking of Hibernation, third solar period) foretells a bad year, eating many watermelons after Liqiu (the Beginning of Autumn, thirteenth solar period) may cause typhoid, tonics are most efficacious if taken after Dongzhi (the Winter Solstice, twenty-second solar period), and so on remained powerful in the twentieth century.

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